nascar fans?

Question

Is nascar the fastest growing sport in america. how many fans are there that are from different cultures an communities

Answer 1

It may not be the absolute fastest growing sport, but it's certainly up there, especially among sports with major TV coverage.
This webpage lists some demographics of NASCAR fans. They're mostly the types of stats that advertisers care about, but it gives an idea of the size and growth of the fanbase, at least to some extent. (Ignore the other demographics, unless you like that sort of thing. The website is for an Oklahoma racing company.)

Answer 2

Well, I don't agree with the guy who said that Nascar is bigger than football. NFL is the biggest sport on America. They have more fans, more ticket sales, more merchandise, it's just flat out bigger. However, Nascar is the fastest growing. It still has a ways to go to be the biggest.

I went to the Brickyard 400 this past Sunday, and it was a blast. Honestly, there are not a lot of people from different cultures there. It's mostly white people. The only blacks I saw were selling T-shirts across the street from the Speedway. The only Asians I saw were selling Egg Rolls at a food stand. There may have been some minority fans there, but I didn't see them. It will probably stay that way, until a minority driver becomes popular. Maybe that's your calling in life, to be the Ernie Banks of Nascar.

Answer 3

I don't know if it's the fastest growing, but it is definitely up there! The cultures and communities of fans is differing from year to year, increasing gradually! I think the more diverse the drivers themselves become so will the fan base! Example: If more black drivers are in and actually racing, then more black fans will arise! Same with women and other races/nationalities!

Answer 4

NASCAR is the fastest growing sport. It has even spread throughout the world, like Mexico and Canada.

Answer 5

Well i don't really think that nascar is the fastest growing sport because if you look at it baseball basketball and football all have more African American viewers or players/drivers but there is alout of people from different communities also though so i think its a tie with football and nascar

Answer 6

I live in Canada (New Brunswick)It is getting bigger and bigger every year here I am a huge fan. Alot of my friends have there favorite driver and watch two or three complete races on TV a year. I find most do not know there stats, or what is actually going on in Nascar news.(they do know what is going on in NHL)
I myself drive my wife and kids crazy with talking about racing all the time. I love the rush I get from it.

Answer 7

NASCAR is growing and it is bigger than football and baseball. Sure the other sports had their days in fame,but NASCAR has taken the spotlight now and will continue to do so in the future.

Answer 8

NASCAR is definatly hot right now, and growing... fast. i'm glad to see that it is up there with pro football. NASCAR has been around for a while, but are now starting to expand into other countries. first mexico. i think canada is next but i'm not sure. football might be pretty well everywhere, but NASCAR is coming fast.

Answer 9

From CNN in 2005:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/09/05/8271412/index.htm

This, race fans, is the new world of NASCAR, the fastest-growing, best-run sports business in America--with the emphasis on business. Once the province of moonshine runners and good ol' boys, the sport has courted corporate America for decades. But NASCAR's recent explosion in popularity--and the establishment of its racetracks as big-time commercial venues--is unprecedented. Stock-car racing is now a multibillion-dollar industry. The second-most-watched sport on television behind pro football, NASCAR has seen its ratings increase by more than 50% since it inked a six-year, $2.4 billion network deal five years ago. The sport is on pace this year for its highest TV viewership ever; the last time a major professional sport set a new high was the NFL in 1981. Licensed retail sales of NASCAR-branded products have increased 250% over the past decade, totaling $2.1 billion last year alone (up from $1.3 billion in 2000). Nascar.com is one of the most highly trafficked sports websites. The NASCAR name is so hot that market research firm PSB picked it as the country's No. 2 brand for 2005, ahead of both Google and iPod (BlackBerry was No. 1).

With NASCAR claiming one-third of all American adults as followers--including a growing swarm of blue-state and female fans--corporate America is stumbling all over itself to get in on the action. It doesn't hurt that while other major sports keep waking up to one PR nightmare after another--baseball's ongoing steroid scandal, last season's NHL lockout, fisticuffs between NBA players and fans--NASCAR drivers are media-savvy, fan-friendly marketing machines. (They never talk about their cars without mentioning their sponsors: "the Cingular Chevrolet," "the Viagra Ford," and so on.) According to the IEG Sponsorship Report, NASCAR had total corporate sponsorship revenue last year of $1.5 billion, compared with $445 million for the NFL and $340 million for Major League Baseball. "Talk to anybody in sports marketing right now," says Larry DeGaris, who runs the Center for Sports Sponsorship at James Madison University, "and NASCAR is the first thing out of their lips." There are 106 FORTUNE 500 companies involved as sponsors--more than in any other sport. "We had been talking about it for over a decade," says FedEx CFO Alan Graf Jr. of his company's decision to sponsor a team this year. "But the sport has gone to such a higher level, we decided we had to jump in."

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Answer 10

It's growing and there are lots of Fans from different countries.